THE Salvador is the offer by Duarte of 'free elections' in which all can participate without fear of their lives.
intends to, make no such promise. There is only one real power on the The freedom fighters of the FMLN understand this very well, which is why their main demand in agreeing to participate in the talks was that the army high command should also be there.
The army is highly of success from Duarte's 'softly, softly' approach to the liberation movement.
openly broken with the Duarte redime due pressure from the US Indeed that is the only that Duarte got elected in the first place. It is the army which decides who will be president of El Salvador, not the popular masses. : So the US used a very simple mechanisa blackmail.
Said to El Salvador was officially cut off before the presidential situation here the MIEN already exerting Last year he FMLN made clear progress in attacking garrison towns and opening up new areas countr free In year r it attacked and defea ted a garrison only 36 miles north of San Salvador, and blew Cascallan bridge, lt: breaking American highway. PanUS was clear Duarte elected and the military aid will come back Duarte being duly elected earlier this year the military ack into El Salvador with vengeance, quite unprecedented previously What is involved in the negotiations is a game of bluff and double-blufi. At every point along the way since Duarte was elected the army has threatened to kick away the traces and break with the regime. That essentially would El But this is exactly the problem. Duarte can, and government side within El That openly unleashing death squads against the civilian population and letting the army loose in COHERSUC with considerable embarassfor the US adminstration.
Since the election the army has tried to present a more 'acceptable the international public by "scaling down its use of terror, torture and the death squads.
But nothing has fundamentally changed. Last was announced month i opened unarmed peasants Chaletenango province. The death toll was over 35, entire families have disappeared. Most ironic the battalion inyolved has been previously held up a shining example of a unit with its old brutal ctices since Duarte's electior ept that the US While the nerals accan make hings difficult, Iney also know that if it came to the SUBSCRIBE crunch the US would not see the EL Sa vadonan ar my destroyed that would aid only the FMLN.
The army is prepared for these talks to go ahead, because they will exercise a veto on any result. And the army will not allow genuinely 'free elections' El Salvador. There is only VIC such elections could take place, and that is if the army's power point, Duarte cannot allow this either. Because after all, whether the army really wanted him or not, he knows he is only president because the army arranged This is why the army will let the talks go ahead, because they intend that it won't make a bit of ference. nilitary El Salvador put source it: 'this is a publicity stunt that will nowhere' talks can nothing. There is only one way with LIL military dictatorship in El Salvador that route that the FMLN is embarked LIOL the struggle to build mass bObutai organisations, arm the people and defeat destroy the military force of the El Salvadorian army.To build solidarity with that struggle the main aim of the interna campaign Salvador.
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Salvador and that is not president Duarte. power lies with the army and its high command.
SOCiAlist ACTION BASIS of the present 'peace talks' in